2015 Proceeding- Program Chair:
- Nic Lane
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS 2015). This workshop builds on the success of the first five workshops in providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss early results and new research directions related to cloud services and mobile computing.
Mobile systems are resource-constrained due to their small form factors. It is natural to consider enhancing them with the massively more resourceful data centers that are distant (a.k.a. the cloud) or located close by (a.k.a. edge servers). In fact, many of today's mobile applications already leverage the cloud, usually via a client-server model and the web. To some extent, mobile systems have become the user interface of the cloud; and the cloud has become the backend of these mobile systems. The scope of MCS 2015 encompasses a broad range of systems and networking topics that explore this synergy between mobile devices and the cloud.
The proliferation of low-cost networked objects, combined with a growing consumer appetite, is driving the long awaited Internet of Thing (IoT) revolution. At MCS this year, we will be examining what this powerful trend means for the future of mobile cloud technology. For example, wearables and smartphones are increasingly playing prominent roles in the emerging IoT ecosystem. What future cloud services and network models will be required when our personal devices are routinely in contact with thousands of smart objects per day? Several papers in the technical program explore the intersection of IoT and Mobile Cloud Services. I hope you find this new dimension to the program interesting and thought-provoking.
Proceeding Downloads
Enabling Vehicular Applications using Cloud Services through Adaptive Computation Offloading
There is growing interest in embedding new class of applications in vehicles to improve the user driving experience. However, the limited computational and storage resources in vehicles brings about a challenge of running computation and data intensive ...
Cloudlet-based Large-scale 3D Reconstruction Using Real-time Data from Mobile Depth Cameras
Measuring the distance between observed objects and the camera, depth cameras on mobile devices are a leverage to more accurate and innovative vision-based applications. In this article, we present the initial design of a distributed cloudlet-based ...
A Novel Hybrid Mobile Malware Detection System Integrating Anomaly Detection With Misuse Detection
As the dominator of the Smartphone operating system market, Android has attracted the attention of malware authors and researchers alike. The number of Android malware is increasing rapidly regardless of the considerable number of proposed malware ...
Vision: The Case for Symbiosis in the Internet of Things
Smart devices are becoming more powerful with faster processors, larger storage, and different types of communication modalities (e.g., WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular). In the predominant view of Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, all smart devices ...
For Your Eyes Only
As users interact with an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, they leave behind traces of information about their presence, preferences and behavior. While the ecosystem can track individuals' movements to provide enhanced recommendations, individuals ...
Processing Radio Access Network Functions in the Cloud: Critical Issues and Modeling
Commoditization and virtualization of wireless networks are changing the economics of mobile networks to help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary and bespoke hardware and software platforms toward an open, cost-effective, and ...
Vision: Augmenting WiFi Offloading with An Open-source Collaborative Platform
Offloading mobile traffic to WiFi networks (WiFi Offloading) is a cost-effective technique to alleviate the pressure on mobile networks for meeting the surge of data capacity demand. However, most existing proposals from standards developing ...